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But the mere powers of cognition and possibilities of cognition, as they must rightly be applied in natural science, are not sufficient to truly penetrate and understand the living or the soul, and one has only the choice of either remaining purely in the realm of physical and chemical laws and then renouncing any understanding of life, of the soul and the spirit, or appealing to powers of cognition quite different from those by which the purely natural, namely the physical and chemical, can be considered.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. 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Diese müssen natürlich mit Physik und Chemie betrachtet werden, und man darf nicht irgendeine Lebenskraft hineinspekulieren. 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